Shifting-rail for vehicles



(No Model.) 7 v F. SOHREIDT. I

SHIFTING RAIL FOR VEHICLES.

No. 288,597,. Patented Nov. 13, 1883.

- U ITED STATES I PATENT OFFIc".

FRANK SOHREIDT, OF MANSFIELD, OHIO.

SHlFTlNG-RAIL FO R VEHICLES..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,597, dated November 13, 1883. Application filed June 24, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK SCHREIDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mansfield, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shifting-Rails for Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is a cheap durable shifting-rail for vehicles, that can be readily adjusted to seats of different sizes and shapes, and applied without injuring the finish, as no heating is required for this purpose. Its object is also to. adapt the back to fold upon the seat for convenience in shipping,and to be readily secured in position after the seat has reached its destination. These objects are accomplished by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which.-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a buggyseat to which my improved shifting-rail is attached. Fig. 2 is a top plan View of a seat, with the railpartially detached and the back folded down upon the seat for shipping. Fig. 3 is a radial section of the back-coupling, greatly enlarged. The portion of the rail is shown in elevation. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section through a portion of the backsupporting rail and the back seat-iron.

Similar reference-letters indicate similar parts wherever they occur through out the various views.

The rail A is made in two parts and coupled together by a coupling-piece, B, which is a short piece of metal tubing counterbored a short distance from each end, the size of the bore being. just large enough to permit the unthreaded portion of the rail to slide within it. From these enlarged portions of the bore. the coupling-piece is tapped toward the center by a right-hand screw -tap on one side and a left-hand one upon the other to receive the correspondingly-threaded ends of the rail A. There is a transverse perforation in the center of the coupling-piece, into which a key is inserted to turn the coupling-sleeve for the purpose of drawing the ends of the rail nearer together, or forcing them apart to adjust it to. the length of the seat. The purpose of counterboringthe coupling-piece from the ends is to prevent the screw-threaded portions of rail A being exposed when therail is extended to its full length.

The back-braces G and side arm-supports,

D, have each bosses c and d, formed upon them above their screw-threaded lower ends.

These bosses are perforated. to receive the rail A. The rail is passed through the pieces D- and the eye-clips E before the forward ends of the rail which support the slat irons are turned and formed for that purpose. The eyebolt or clip E is of the same form as the lower parts of pieces 0 and D, which include the perforated bosses and screw-threaded shanks. The rear studs, a, which support the buggytop, are welded to the rail A, and this is the only welding required in the formation of the entire rail.

The seat-irons F are countersunk from the top to embed the lower portions of the bosses c d and clip E, so that by tightening the nuts 6 against the under sides of the seat-irons the parts are firmly held together. When the shifting-rails are made for sale to manufacturers, the seat-irons are left straight, so that they may be bent to fit any shaped seat.

To fold the seat down, as shown in Fig. 2, the nuts are removed from the lower ends of pieces (3 and D, and bolts from the upper ends of pieces D. The pieces are withdrawn from the seat-irons, the side pieces D and back G folded inward upon the seat H.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,

1. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the seat-irons F, having perfora' tions at their outer ends, the back-supporting braces 0, each provided with a perforated boss, 0, and a shank extending below the boss, and the shifting-rail constructed to be held in the perforations of the bosses.

2. The combination of the seat-irons-F, the back-braces O, and side braces, D, provided, respectively, with perforated bosses, and a shank extending below the bosses, the shift in'g-rail A, seat H, and back G, all arranged. and operating substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

3. The combination, with the rail A, the bearing-irons of the seat, and the nut e, of

the eyebolts or back -supports 0, having a' FRANK SCHREIDT.

7 Witnesses:

SAMUEL MARRIOTT, ISADORE MILLER. 

